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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Capturing output
Keywords: script redirect printer output
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.213440.7798@uwasa.fi>
Date: 11 Jul 90 21:34:40 GMT
References: <10300@stiatl.UUCP>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <10300@stiatl.UUCP> klb@stiatl.UUCP (Kathy Ball) writes:
>I'm looking for a utility which works like 'script' in Un*x
>(or 'dribble' in Lisp), which allows you to capture everything which
>is displayed on the screen in a file.  Anybody have such a program?

Not quite, but there is a utility called snipper that captures one
ascii screen at a time to a file.  You can download it by anonymous
ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland, directory /pc/pd2. 

>Another solution to the problem would be a simple way to redirect printer
>output to a file.  From what I can find in the MS-DOS documentation,
>it's not too complicated to redirect one printer port to another, but
>I don't find any references to redirecting port output to a file.

This one goes under the title of frequently asked questions.  There
is a utility called lptx available from the same directory. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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